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Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-17 Christine Bachoc , Gilles Zemor

In this article we present a unified treatment for obtaining bounds on the potential energy of codes in the general context of polynomial metric spaces (PM-spaces). The lower bounds we derive via the linear programming (LP) techniques of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Peter Boyvalenkov , Peter Dragnev , Douglas Hardin , Edward Saff , Maya Stoyanova

In the last years many results in the area of semidefinite programming were obtained for invariant (finite dimensional, or infinite dimensional) semidefinite programs - SDPs which have symmetry. This was done for a variety of problems and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Christine Bachoc , Dion C. Gijswijt , Alexander Schrijver , Frank Vallentin

We give theorems that can be used to upper bound the densities of packings of different spherical caps in the unit sphere and of translates of different convex bodies in Euclidean space. These theorems extend the linear programming bounds…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-26 David de Laat , Fernando Mario de Oliveira Filho , Frank Vallentin

We investigate the asymptotic rates of length-$n$ binary codes with VC-dimension at most $dn$ and minimum distance at least $\delta n$. Two upper bounds are obtained, one as a simple corollary of a result by Haussler and the other via a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Sihuang Hu , Nir Weinberger , Ofer Shayevitz

We survey recent generalizations and improvements of the linear programming method that involve semidefinite programming. A general framework using group representations and tools from graph theory is provided.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-09 Christine Bachoc

Linear programming has played a crucial role in shaping decision-making, resource allocation, and cost reduction in various domains. In this paper, we investigate the application of overparametrized neural networks and their implicit bias…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Haoyue Wang , Promit Ghosal , Rahul Mazumder

We consider (symmetric, non-degenerate) bilinear spaces over a finite field and investigate the properties of their $\ell$-complementary subspaces, i.e., the subspaces that intersect their dual in dimension $\ell$. This concept generalizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Heide Gluesing-Luerssen , Alberto Ravagnani

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a fundamental class of convex optimization problems with diverse applications in mathematics, engineering, machine learning, and related disciplines. This paper investigates the application of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Zilong Cui , Ran Gu

In this paper, we study binary constrained codes that are resilient to bit-flip errors and erasures. In our first approach, we compute the sizes of constrained subcodes of linear codes. Since there exist well-known linear codes that achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Navin Kashyap

We introduce a linear programming framework for obtaining upper bounds for the potential energy of spherical codes of fixed cardinality and minimum distance. Using Hermite interpolation we construct polynomials to derive corresponding…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Peter Boyvalenkov , Peter Dragnev , Douglas Hardin , Edward Saff , Maya Stoyanova

A central and longstanding open problem in coding theory is the rate-versus-distance trade-off for binary error-correcting codes. In a seminal work, Delsarte introduced a family of linear programs establishing relaxations on the size of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Leonardo Nagami Coregliano , Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Chris Jones , Nati Linial , Elyassaf Loyfer

A new approach for upper bounding the channel reliability function using the code spectrum is described. It allows to treat in a unified way both a low and a high rate cases. In particular, the earlier known upper bounds are improved, and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Marat V. Burnashev

In this article we obtain linear programming bounds for the maximal sphere packing density of commutative spaces. A special case of our results solves a conjecture by Cohn and Zhao on linear programming bounds for sphere packings in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Maximilian Wackenhuth

Packing problems in discrete geometry can be modeled as finding independent sets in infinite graphs where one is interested in independent sets which are as large as possible. For finite graphs one popular way to compute upper bounds for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 David de Laat , Frank Vallentin

Upper bounds are given for the weight distribution of binary weakly self-dual codes. To get these new bounds, we introduce a novel method of utilizing unitary operations on Hilbert spaces. This method is motivated by recent progress on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-16 Vwani P. Roychowdhury , Farrokh Vatan

We study the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity for conformal field theories in the presence of a boundary, with a focus on the Ising model in various dimensions. We show that an analytic approach to the bootstrap is feasible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Pedro Liendo , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

We develop a framework for approximation limits of polynomial-size linear programs from lower bounds on the nonnegative ranks of suitably defined matrices. This framework yields unconditional impossibility results that are applicable to any…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Gábor Braun , Samuel Fiorini , Sebastian Pokutta , David Steurer

This work introduces a decoding strategy for binary self-dual codes possessing an automorphism of a specific type. The proposed algorithm is a hard decision iterative decoding scheme. The enclosed experiments show that the new decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Radinka Yorgova

In this paper we provide new compact integral expressions and associated simple asymptotic approximations for converse and achievability bounds in the finite blocklength regime. The chosen converse and random coding union bounds were taken…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Tomaso Erseghe